There is extensive damage to the head consistent with a rifle blast.

His ears were still singing from the concussion of the rifle blast.

No one would have noticed that window, ordinarily, but it was the spot from which the rifle blasts had come.

The door banged closed, and the sound cracked louder than a rifle blast.

There were more rifle blasts and the Helot went down.

No white man in the path of these Indians had much to fear; one rifle blast would scatter the lot.

His hearing, after the rifle blast and tumbling crash of the first cycle, was confused.

When it happened, he jerked up, firing blindly in the direction of the rifle blasts.

Jack's hands began to slip, jarred by the force of the continued rifle blasts.

Another rifle blast and a slug sparked off the stone a few feet away.